Re: Ultra-right US politician on sa(side point)

From: "Douglas Stokes" <dstokes14@DELETETHIShotmail.com>

Subject: Re: Ultra-right US politician on sa(side point)

Date: Tue, 01 Feb 2000 18:58:40 GMT

>At the risk of being called an evil imperialist, I would suggest >that it
>is a gross oversimplification to call every act of >interference in the
>sovereignty of another country "colonial" guiding of poor "uncivilised"
>non-westerners. The image of a world made of >cosy, defined, "sovereign"
>states is illusory. President Wilson had a >vision of such a world for the
>former Yugoslavia after world war one; >the ethnic conflict over the past
>century are a testament to how that >vision failed.
A side point I know but it's important not to let things slip. The former
Yugoslavia was a relative sea of calm in terms of ethnic conflict after
world war one, save for the Croatian Ustasha set up by Nazi Germany. The
resistance to the Ustasha was led by Tito's partisans who were comprised of
all ethnic groups. In Bosnia, the most "ethnically mixed" area of FY there
were 30-40% intermarriage between the "ethnic" groups. One third of the
territorial defence force of Sarajevo in 1993 (well into the Bosnian
conflict) was comprised of Serbs.
My point is: we shouldn’t characterise FY as an area of rampant ethnic
conflict. IMO this is a gross oversimplification.
Doug.
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